Does The Secret Relationship “misquote” scholars?

This “charge” is oft-repeated, never proven. What page? What paragraph? Surely, if this is so it can IMMEDIATELY be pointed out! When pressed, the charge is withdrawn and another put in its place—that the book quotes these scholars accurately, but “out of context.” To illustrate the point we present the words of Robert A. Rockaway, senior lecturer in the Department of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University:

1. “After the first World War, Jewish gangsters became major figures in the American underworld and played prominent roles in the creation and extension of organized crime in the United States. During Prohibition fifty percent of the leading bootleggers were Jews, and Jewish criminals financed and directed much of the nation’s narcotics traffic. Jews also dominated illicit activities in a number of America’s largest cities, including Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Minneapolis, New York, and Philadelphia.”
   

Not only is this quotation accurate, it is the very first paragraph of Dr. Rockaway’s article in the Journal of the American Jewish Historical Society. HE chose to use this language, not the Nation of Islam scholars, who happen to AGREE with Dr. Rockaway (on this issue), and there are many sources that confirm his stunning assertions. Why Jews refuse to respect their own scholars is a mystery.

Also, the top Jewish historian in America is Rabbi Marc Lee Raphael, who goes further than any of those Blacks charged with “anti-Semitism”—further than Dr. Leonard Jeffries, Dr. Tony Martin, Dr. Khallid Muhammad, even further than the Hon. Min. Louis Farrakhan—on the touchy issue of Jewish involvement in the Black Holocaust. Dr. Raphael (like Dr. Rockaway) is not a member of the Nation of Islam—why, he is not even Black! He is a Jew, and the editor of American Jewish History, the journal of the American Jewish Historical Society at Brandeis University in Massachusetts. In his book Jews and Judaism in the United States: a Documentary History (New York: Behrman House, 1983), p. 14, he spoke of Jews in Brazil, where as many as 90 percent of all African slaves were shipped:

1. “Jews also took an active part in the Dutch colonial slave trade; indeed, the bylaws of the Recife and Mauricia congregations (1648) included an imposta (Jewish tax) of five soldos for each Negro slave a Brazilian Jew purchased from the West Indies Company. Slave auctions were postponed if they fell on a Jewish holiday. In Curacao in the seventeenth century, as well as in the British colonies of Barbados and Jamaica in the eighteenth century, Jewish merchants played a major role in the slave trade. In fact, in all the American colonies, whether French (Martinique), British, or Dutch, Jewish merchants frequently dominated. 
   

2. “This was no less true on the North American mainland, where during the eighteenth century Jews participated in the ‘triangular trade’ that brought slaves from Africa to the West Indies and there exchanged them for molasses, which in turn was taken to New England and converted into rum for sale in Africa. Isaac Da Costa of Charleston in the 1750’s, David Franks of Philadelphia in the 1760’s, and Aaron Lopez of Newport in the late 1760’s and early 1770’s dominated Jewish slave trading on the American continent.”
   

“FREQUENTLY DOMINATED” is the term Rabbi Raphael used, almost a decade before the Nation of Islam published The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews. Raphael has never been attacked in any way for this astonishing statement. But some of the greatest Black minds of this century have been excoriated simply for quoting him. Only Jewish racism can account for this flagrant double standard.